This might sound cliche, but if you have ever wanted to play a game where you are a shark that likes to eat, all the time, there’s an app for that. The people from Future Games of London have made the game called Hungry Shark that lets you do just that. You are a shark and it is your job to eat as much as you can if you want to survive. If you do not eat, you will die. First you will start to starve and then it is Game Over if you don’t find something to fill your belly with. But it isn’t just all fun and games with you dominating every creature in the sea, there are also a few different enemies that will attack you and make you hungry. Your hunger is your health. If you are attacked, you lose health which makes you hungry and once you start starving, you will turn belly up in no time if you don’t start eating quickly!

Besides just eating, Hungry Shark also lets you find different hidden objects scattered through the map. The hidden objects will increase your score and help you level up. The hidden objects are various objects that you might find on the bottom of the sea floor. To add to the eating and finding of hidden objects, Part 2 to Hungry Sharkwas just recently released which has several new things for you to do. The two parts are both a part of Hungry Shark. In Part 2, there is a massive new game map, dozens of new creatures to eat and avoid, ten new hidden items to discover, improved tilt calibration, and enhanced online hi-scores. The game lets you select from either part 1 of the game or from part 2 of the game when you start a new game. Kind of like choosing between two different levels to play. You do the same things in both parts, but there are different enemies and prey items and things to find in the two different parts.

The graphics for this game are really quite keen. They aren’t anything that is really new, but they are very nice. The people in the game are especially well done and look fantastic. For music, there is some Jaws

inspired music in the game at the main menu, but while playing, there really isn’t much for music. Fortunately, there are some sound effects for your listening pleasure. You can hear things like the sound of the ocean and the sound of when you munch on a new prey item. Some real Jaws music might be in order here to increase the dramatic effect while you are playing. Controls are tilt based and they work great. Tilting games are perfect for a iPhone/iPod because they utilize your devices accelerometer to its fullest potential. It should be noted though that there is a control that uses the touch function that gives you a boost by just touching anywhere on the screen. The boost is limited, but it refills over time and helps you by increasing your attack power to overwhelm tough enemies and get the jump on easier enemies.

This game already had a huge maps to explore, but now there are two huge maps to explore! Part 1 of Hungry Shark had a humongous map to explore while finding hidden objects and eating prey. This first map included different areas such as underwater caves and different areas like Iceland, and The Deep. The Deep is filled with some wonderful food for you to eat. In Iceland, you will find icebergs floating in the water and artic prey to eat. The caves give you a different place to explore, find things, and of course eat. One thing that Part 2 does is introduce a new map to the game to play in. This new map is also very big and filled with new things to eat and to avoid and places to explore. These two maps together make this one huge game that will take time to play through.

As a shark, you will be glad to know that there is a multitude of edible food to eat. There are schools of bait fish, pelicans, barracuda, scuba divers, people on boats or swimming. And even penguins. To eat the people on the boats, you need to ram the boat they are on to knock the people into the water where you can easily eat them. The more you eat, the more you level up which makes you grow larger and more powerful. Eating a big number of aquatic creatures in quick succession will give you a combo multiplier to further increase your score. The enemies and things that can hurt you include underwater mines, jellyfish, swordfish, angler fish, puffer fish, and shark hunters. The Shark Hunters will throw bombs at you in an effort to put an end to your eating rampage. Jellyfish are poisonous and will drain your health with their poison for a while. Other enemies will just attack you and make you starve to death. The good news is that the enemies are also mostly edible, but you have to attack them correctly. Each one needs a certain tactic to make it become your dinner instead of it making you more hungry from their attacks. There are also even newer things to eat in part 2 of Hungry Shark well as dangerous enemies that you need to look out for and try to keep away if you want to stay alive. A new prey item in the Part 2 is people on jet skis, while a new danger in Part 2 includes toxic waste spewing from drum containers. It also introduces a new giant crab enemy, and I am not exaggerating, this crab is huge! The key to killing the giant crab is to attack it when it misses you with its own attack.

Scoreloop is used for online leader boards and to keep track of your statistics like average score, total game time, total eaten, largest shark size, etc. This is an incredibly fun and fantastic casual game for anyone. You can pick this game up and play it with ease and return to it anytime you want. If you feel the need to feed, Hungry Shark from Future Games of London has you covered!